Disengaged paramedics of GMC Srinagar seek CM’s intervention

Srinagar, Oct 22: More than a year after their disengagement, the paramedics of GMC Srinagar have appealed to Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister, Health Minister and requested their intervention to take cognizance of the issue.
In June last year, the medical college had disengaged 93 paramedical staff who were engaged on academic arrangement, out of the total 477 appointees who had completed 12 years of their services.
The disengaged paramedics stated that they have been suffering from the delay of getting justice and they along with dependent families have been going through mental trauma.
They said they have been put to starvation due to untimely disengagement, without waiting for the final outcome of the whole SRO-384 sub-judice with the Supreme Court of India.
“As such being identically placed appointees, we humbly seek attention and cognizance of the matter for quashing our termination, till the pendency of the matter with the Supreme Court, which is paramount,” they said.
The paramedics now disengaged said they have suffered both financially and mentally. “Any delay in justice shall have a disastrous impact on our lives and our families,” they said.
The appointments of paramedical appointees like junior grade nurses, anaesthesia assistants, ECG assistants, junior pharmacists, theatre assistants, x-ray assistants were made on temporary basis by the GMC Srinagar in 2012 for six years under SRO-384 without any regularization policy.
Pertinently, many employees of different departments hired under various schemes on contractual basis were regularized after seven years and some hiring’s were brought under ambit of other schemes like Rehbare Ziraat, Rehbare Khaeel etc. and absorbed from time to time.
However, appointments of GMC Srinagar hired under academic arrangements have been left in lurch. They have worked in tough times like 2014 floods, 2016 unrest and 2019 Covid-19 lockdown and have suffered huge losses.
They said they see a dark future ahead as they have no other way to go as most of them have crossed their age eligibility to apply for fresh posts.